Summer Baseball: Franklin Legion routs Foxboro

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Jun 18, 2014 at 10:28 PMJun 18, 2014 at 11:34 PM

Brad Rebello, a standout on Bellingham High's recent state championship baseball team, went 4-for-5 with two runs scored, an RBI and stolen base as Franklin Post 75 rolled past host Foxboro 10-5 in a Zone 6 West American Legion game on Wednesday night.

Brad Rebello, a standout on Bellingham High's recent state championship baseball team, went 4-for-5 with two runs scored, an RBI and stolen base as Franklin Post 75 rolled past host Foxboro 10-5 in a Zone 6 West American Legion game on Wednesday night.Designated hitter KJ Powers went 2-4 with a double and run scored, and Drew Inglesi drew two walks, hit a two-run double and scored three runs in a 10-hit offense for Franklin (4-2).Post 75's starting pitcher Colby Lewis allowed one earned run, did not give up a walk and struck out three in six innings.Franklin scored three runs in the first and two in the second to take a 5-0 lead. Post 75 scored four times in the fifth for a 10-2 lead. Foxboro pushed across three unearned runs in the seventh.Franklin hosts Zone 6 West-leading Walpole on Friday at Dean College starting at 5:45 p.m. Post 75 lost 1-0 to Walpole last week on a suicide squeeze in the eighth inning.

CHERRY VALLEY 5, FRAMINGHAM 4: Starter Joey Osborne was throwing a no-hitter and Framingham was leading 4-0 going into the bottom of the sixth inning when Cherry Valley scored four unearned runs to tie it and won it with another run in the seventh to top Post 74 in a Zone 4 matchup.

Nick Piselli and Cory Lerner hit RBI doubles, and Rich Ferreira had an RBI single for Framingham.

The game was scoreless until Post 74 took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth. Post 74 added two runs on three hits in the fifth to go up 3-0 and then added another run in the sixth on two hits.

Cherry Valley managed to score its runs on just five hits off Framingham pitching. Osborne left the game in the sixth. Two errors and a passed ball cost Framingham four runs in the sixth. And a leadoff walk in the seventh led to the winning run coming home on a single.

Post 74, which dropped to 2-4 on the season, hosts East Side Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Brian Leblanc will be the starting pitcher for Post 74.

“Hopefully we’ll fare better,” said Smith.

Senior Babe RuthBELLINGHAM 7, MARLBOROUGH 3: Tate Laquerre and John Cutler each hit two-run singles in the third inning as Bellingham (2-0) rallied past visiting Marlborough (4-2) in a CMSBR non-division game.Eric Schmidt went 2-for-3 for Marlborough, including a three-run homer in the top of the first.Anthony Crowley hit a two-run homer in the bottom of first. Laquerre finished 2-for-3 with a double and tied the game 3-3 with his single. Cutler's hit was the game-winner that made it 5-3.Leading 6-3, Bellingham reliever Ryan Postler got out of a bases loaded jam with a fly out to right field in the sixth.MEDWAY 15, ASHLAND 1 (6 INN.): Tyler Monahan had two doubles and four RBIs to lead Medway (5-1) to victory at Ashland (2-3) in a CMSBR non-division game.Drew Harris pitched all six innings and allowed just two hits while striking out six. Connor Quinn chipped in with two hits, three runs scored and an RBI, as well as strong defense at shortstop for Medway.Shamus Reardon knocked in Brian Mahan with Ashland's run on a sacrifice fly in the first inning.MEDFIELD 14, MILFORD 2 (5 INN.): Griffin Lynch reached base twice, doubled and scored a run for Milford (2-5) in a loss to visiting Medfield in a CMSBR non-division game mercy ruled after five innings.Zach Johnson reached base twice and singled for Milford and Garrett Handley pitched a solid game but was hurt by defensive errors as he only allowed a couple of earned runs.

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